Lee Anderson erupted after Nigel Farage was heckled by MPs during PMQs. The Reform UK leader faced shouts in the Commons as he asked a question about Brexit and immigration.

Raising a point of order following PMQs, Ashfield MP Mr Anderson said: “During PMQs today the honourable member for Clacton asked what I thought was quite a reasonable question because I knew what the question was going to be. But during PMQs I couldn’t hear a single word and I’m sure people in this chamber couldn’t because people like the honourable member for Dewsbury behind me never shut up all the way through.

Reform UK MP Lee Anderson (Image: PARLIAMENT TV)

“We do not subscribe to this sort of dog whistle politics in Reform UK so Mr Speaker could you please give us advice how to stop this behaviour in the future?”

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle replied: “I think Mr Farage is capable of dealing with his own battles as we’ve seen on many occasions.

“It is about respect, it is about tolerance, that we should show to each other because what we do in here is reflected outside.

“So please let us show common sense but respect for each other.”

Mr Anderson’s intervention comes after the Reform UK leader faced loud heckles from MPs as he attempted to grill Sir Keir Starmer.

The Clacton MP said immigration was the driving force behind the 2016 Brexit vote.

Mr Farage said: “Does the Prime Minister understand that that demand today is even greater than it was back in 2016 and that we demand, the country demands, that you say to the French president we will not accept undocumented migrants across the English Channel and that you are not dictated to by an increasingly arrogant anti-Brexit French president.”

Sir Keir Starmer replied: “We are fixing the mess that we inherited. We are working with other countries to ensure that we take the measures necessary to stop people crossing the Channel.

“They are serious answers to serious problems. His proposal, for 10 years wagging the Tory dog, has been to break everything and claim that is how you fix things, to stick two fingers up at your neighbours and then expect them to work with us and he votes against the Borders Bill which gives more powers to our law enforcement to deal with security at our borders.

“The reason for that is he has no interest in fixing the problem because he wants to milk it and exploit it. That is the truth about him and his party.”